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Design Firm Taps Into Veterans' Subconscious to Aid in Designing First-of-its- Kind Recovery Center
Date:11/25/2008
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Astorino, an architecture, engineering, interior design and construction services firm, along with their affiliate company, fathom, applied innovative research techniques, never before used on a VA campus, for the design of the new Veterans Recovery Center. The Veterans Recovery Center is located on Pittsburgh's H. John Heinz III Progressive Care Center and will be dedicated in a ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 11am.
Due to the complexity of this user group and the significant impact this type of facility has on all generations of our nation's veterans, Astorino turned to fathom to help them truly understand these veterans and the issues that they face.
"fathom provided a deeper insight into the fundamental issues of veterans, helping the design team step inside the shoes of someone suffering from chemical dependency, mental illness and homelessness," commented Tim Powers, AIA, Atorino's lead architect for the Veterans Recovery Center. "These insights allowed us to truly understand the unique needs of these veterans and to create a design that directly responds to those needs."
The fathom team uncovered subconscious thoughts and feelings of the veterans, staff members, and families through extensive one-on-one interviews, ethnographic (observational) research, interactive discovery sessions, sensory analyses and story-telling. These important insights were then translated and prioritized into specific design guidelines that Astorino and Associate Architect, HDR, used as a roadmap to design a facility where the veterans can fully focus on their recovery
The combined efforts of fathom and Astorino, working side-by-side with the
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